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grocery shopping HELP

Hello ladys OK i need advice on how to go grocery shopping :) My limit is about $600/month for Me, Hubby, and two toddlers. Tomorrow i have to go and really dont wanna go over $150/wk. I need help figuring out Breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas that'll stay in my budget "if possible" Mainly Lunch just for Me and lil ones. PLease any advice would help, so i can learn more.`

Holy Moly! We would be eating like kings with that kind of food budget! I have 5 also, the kids are 11 and 13 and 17, all boys! Know what you already have and make a menu, then a grocery list. Stick to that list. I feed my family on about $350/400 a month, including paper goods and dogfood.

This works. I feed my family of three plus my two step daughters three nights out of the week for about 100 every two weeks including household items. However i make everything from scratch

Quoting ladyvamp5489:

Holy Moly! We would be eating like kings with that kind of food budget! I have 5 also, the kids are 11 and 13 and 17, all boys! Know what you already have and make a menu, then a grocery list. Stick to that list. I feed my family on about $350/400 a month, including paper goods and dogfood.

This works. I feed my family of three plus my two step daughters three nights out of the week for about 100 every two weeks including household items. However i make everything from scratch

Quoting ladyvamp5489:

Holy Moly! We would be eating like kings with that kind of food budget! I have 5 also, the kids are 11 and 13 and 17, all boys! Know what you already have and make a menu, then a grocery list. Stick to that list. I feed my family on about $350/400 a month, including paper goods and dogfood.

It makes a world of difference in food costs hu :) i do get complaints from the teens about not enough "snack" food, but there's always a cake or cookies for sweets and sandwich stuff and leftovers if they are hungry

Quoting ladyvamp5489:

I cook from scratch too

Quoting csmcgr:

This works. I feed my family of three plus my two step daughters three nights out of the week for about 100 every two weeks including household items. However i make everything from scratch

Quoting ladyvamp5489:

Holy Moly! We would be eating like kings with that kind of food budget! I have 5 also, the kids are 11 and 13 and 17, all boys! Know what you already have and make a menu, then a grocery list. Stick to that list. I feed my family on about $350/400 a month, including paper goods and dogfood.

yeah it saves us alot of money, as far as snack foods, i make nut free granola or get a bag of oranges and bananas and cut up and freeze. they also get jello with fruit in it, i buy cereal on sale and bag it insnack bags and they love that, cheerios is one of their favs to eat dry. I dont get sugared cereals. lefovers are also a good snack lol.

Quoting csmcgr:

It makes a world of difference in food costs hu :) i do get complaints from the teens about not enough "snack" food, but there's always a cake or cookies for sweets and sandwich stuff and leftovers if they are hungry

Quoting ladyvamp5489:

I cook from scratch too

Quoting csmcgr:

This works. I feed my family of three plus my two step daughters three nights out of the week for about 100 every two weeks including household items. However i make everything from scratch

Quoting ladyvamp5489:

Holy Moly! We would be eating like kings with that kind of food budget! I have 5 also, the kids are 11 and 13 and 17, all boys! Know what you already have and make a menu, then a grocery list. Stick to that list. I feed my family on about $350/400 a month, including paper goods and dogfood.

I spend about $400 a month for myself, my dhand 2 teenage sons (15 and 13). And that includes non-food things like soaps and such. I'm a once a month shopper ( I really dislike going to the grocery store) for things meats and other things that can be frozen or stored. I go back to the store for fresh items once a week or so. I do price matching and even if I've already bought for the month, if something that I will use goes on sale, I will stock up (like last week, or 2 weeks ago a store had powerade on sale for a really good price plus I had some coupons I got from my coke rewards points. My sons won't really drink them now, but come June and July they will).

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I also go to Sam's club for many things that I use on a regular basis. I also keep a price log so I know if some regular store has it on sale I know if its a good price or not.

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